The Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday announced the third list of candidates for Gujarat assembly elections.
The Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday announced the third list of candidates for Gujarat assembly elections and dropped almost half of its sitting MLAs.
The BJP, which has been in power in Gujarat for over two decades, dropped 14 sitting MLAs, including four ministers, while repeating ten sitting MLAs.
The dropped ministers are Tarachand Chheda, Jayanti Kavadiya, Vallabh Vaghasiya and Nanu Vanani. However, Kavadiya and Vanani had announced earlier that they would not be contesting in the elections.
The other dropped MLAs include former ministers Narottam Patel and Vasuben Trivedi, Arvind Ladani, Bhanu Babariya, Jetha Solanki,
Shiva Gohel, Praful Pansheriya, Ajay Choksi and Janak Bagdanawala. The last three names were representing the Patidar dominated seats in Surat. This means the BJP has dropped its MLAs in four out of five Patidar dominated seats in the Diamond City. The party had earlier repeated Kumar Kanani as its candidate from Varachh Road seat.
Ten sitting MLAs find a place in the BJP's third list, but the party has changed seats of two of them
Former minister and Assembly Speaker Ramanlal Vora will contest from Dasada (SC) seat in place of Idar, while former minister Saurabh Patel, who was sidelined in the party from some time, will contest from Botad seat in place of Akota seat.
The other MLAs who have been repeated include Pankaj Maheta (Rapar), Kanti Amrutiya (Morbi), Govind Patel (Rajkot South), Keshubhai Nakrani (Gariadhar), Chhatrasinh Mori (Jambusar), Dushyant Patel (Bharuch), Jhankhna Patel (Choryasi) and Mohan Dhodiya (Mahuva ST)
Former state BJP chief RC Faldu, who had lost from Jamnagar Rural seat in 2012, has been nominated from Jamnagar South seat in place of Vasuben Trivedi.
Jhankhna Patel, the candidate from Choryasi, is the sole woman in the list of 28. BJP has fielded nine women from 134 seats for which candidates have been announced so far.
On Saturday, the party had released its second list of 36 candidates.
With this, the party has announced over 134 candidates for elections to the 182-member Gujarat Assembly to be held in two phases on December 9 and 14.
Earlier, the party had announced 70 candidates, including Chief Minister Vijay Rupani, Deputy Chief Minister Nitin Patel and state party chief Jitu Vaghani.
(With inputs from Sumit Khanna)
3rd List of BJP Candidate for Gujarat Legislative Assembly Election 2017 by Pratik Mukane on Scribd
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